Joseph T. Evans (born December 11, 1971), known professionally as Sev Statik and Stu Dent, is a hip hop musician and promoter from Albany, New York.
Active as a rapper since the early 1990s, he has performed and recorded both as a solo artist and as a member of the hip hop collectives Deepspace5 and Tunnel Rats.
Evans has also been a member of various Albany-area hip hop groups, including All Bully, Master Plan, Body Language, currently fronts the rap rock band Goldtooth, and is active in Pitch Control Music, a musical collective and arts movement he co-founded in order to promote and develop hip hop in the Albany area.
Under the Sev Statik moniker, Evans has released five additional studio albums: Slow Burn (2005), Sliver LP (2007), Back to Dust with DJ Dust (2007), Shotgun (2008), and Sondial with Rawthreat (2011), as well as a collaborative album, Falling Tsar (2008), with Scribbling Idiots members JustMe, Wonder Brown, and Theory Hazit.
Evans ventured into hip hop music during the early 1990s, after being awed by local DJ and MC performances in Albany neighborhoods.
[1] In 1996, Evans released two EPs under the Sev Statik name, and, during a Christian hip hop convention in Florida, co-founded Deepspace5 with Listener, Sintax.the.Terrific, Manchild and Recon.
[2][13] Deepspace5, which by this point had expanded to include DJ Dust, Playdough, Freddie Bruno, and Sivion, also released its first album, The Night We Called it a Day.
[19] Also in 2005, Evans joined up with fellow Albany-area hip hop artist Rick Whispers to form Body Language and record the studio album All Up In Yer Grill Piece, which was later released as a free download.
[20][21] In 2006, Evans released a Sev Statik studio album, Sliver LP, a remix of Slow Burn entitled Afterburn, and the compilation Severed Remaynz III.
[25] In 2008, Deepspace5 released two studio albums, Deepspacesoul, a project put together by one of the collective's producers, Beat Rabbi,[26] and Bake Sale.
the Other Head of Science also joined, rounding out the group to a quartet with Dan Beck "El Mustango" on drums, Sean Fortune on bass, Sev Statik as emcee, and Ferguson on guitar and synthesizers.